The animals were all created by kids, who took some time out from the bouncy castle, music workshops, sack races, puppet shows and other enticing activities at the fun day to try their hand at stop-motion animation.

They’ve put a huge amount of work into animating their animals. Stop-motion is a frankly painstaking animation technique that works by taking a still image or ‘frame’, moving your character just a smidgen, and then taking another photo and so on and so on…

It usually takes 25 of these frames to create one second of video. We slowed things down a touch for our Dubbo animated animals we but we still needed 12 frames for every second. Wowsers!

That is a lot of careful placement of hooves, tails and beaks.

Usually you would work in an animation studio, with controlled lighting, and a rock steady rostrum to stop your background from moving. These animals were created in a tent, with a wobbly table, in the middle of a busy festival and they still look fantastic.